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How can food companies come up with a blueprint to integrate sustainability into product and material choices, and drive systems-level change?
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Rice Race Intensifies: FEI Foods' Rice "First to Market" with Microwavable Mono-Material PP Pouch
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Precipak Announces Sealpac Representation in U.S.
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Placon Certified by SCS Global Services for 75% Recycled Content
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Pasta Brand Switches Oil- for Plant-based Film
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Czech Craft Brewer Adopts Paperboard Can Handle System
This version of Smurfit Kappa's TopClip paperboard can handle product range targets small to mid-sized brewers and craft beverage brands, making it just the right size for Czech beer brewer Pivovar Clock.
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PMMI Joins Recycling Leadership Council to Debut Blueprint for Fixing Recycling in the U.S.
As a part of the RLC and a large influence in packaging, PMMI pledged to work with the coalition on this effort.
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Unilever Japan's Lux Luminique Joins Mono-Material Movement
The company chose this PET mono-material, which comes from the GL Barrier range of films by Toppan Printing, after successfully collaborating with the converter on quality tests.
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New D2C Cleaning Products: Refillable, Non-Toxic, and Counterworthy
Blueland takes its first step toward transforming consumer shopping habits, with elegant, reusable bottles for cleaning products sold in a concentrated tablet format through e-commerce.
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Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation Update
Nearly a dozen proposals for packaging producer responsibility have been brought forth already this year. Learn how they differ and how they are alike in their strategies.
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Another Brand Adopts Post-Consumer Recycled Packaging
Founded in 1953, green-minded home improvement and construction brand HAGA specializes in natural and organic building materials, such as lime or clay plaster.
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View Product Demos On Demand
Missed part or all of PACK EXPO Connects? Browse dozens of demos by category or search by keyword. Find solutions to your packaging and processing challenges now through March 31.
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Novolex Adding Recycling Instructions Labeling to Plastic Products
In addition to expanding its capacity to recycle store drop-off items, Novolex is adding How2Recycle instructions to a variety of plastic bags.
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Coke To Test Paper Bottle
The Coca-Cola Company’s first-ever paper bottle prototype is transitioning from the lab to the marketplace this summer through a limited online trial in Hungary.
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Serac to Present Low Environmental Impact Packaging Solutions in Virtual Showroom
From February 25th until March 19th, Serac invites all customers and end-users to a showroom entirely designed in 3D for a 360° immersive experience.
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Exploring monolayer films for frozen, microwavable foods
Brian Stepowany of B & G Foods (Green Giant Brand) joins Packaging World's Matt Reynolds to discuss R & D considerations and how progress has been affected by Covid crisis. Six-minute video report.
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Coca-Cola Transitions Brands to 100% rPET, Unveils New ‘Sip-Size’ Bottle
Among the innovations rolling out through July 2021 are new 100% rPET bottles, a new 13.2-oz bottle size, enhanced on-pack recycling messaging, and a new aluminum bottle for water.
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Walmart Selects IFCO as Exclusive Provider of Reusable Plastic Containers
IFCO Systems (IFCO) and Walmart announced a multi-year business agreement that will expand the retailer’s use of IFCO RPCs and make IFCO Walmart’s exclusive RPC packaging provider for select fresh fruits and vegetables distributed in the U.S.
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D2C Proteins' Thermal Insulation Sits at the Intersection of E-Comm and Sustainability
This e-comm startup hit the big time only a couple of months ago. A big step in getting there was bolstering its package sustainability profile to better align with its brand positioning.
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RLC Releases Report on Fixing Recycling in the U.S.
The Recycling Leadership Council (RLC), a broad coalition of stakeholders brought together to identify the federal government’s role in fixing the U.S. recycling system, released the Blueprint for America’s Recycling System.
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Krones Joins the EU’s Circular Economy Initiative
The Krones Group joined the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform.
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Bumble Bee's Culture of Sustainability
Jan Tharp, Bumble Bee Seafood CEO, sat down with OEM editor, Stephanie Neil, during PACK EXPO Connects last Fall for an in-depth interview. Here is a one-minute video clip on how to build a culture of sustainability.
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Annie's Organics and Post-Consumer Recycled Content
Pat Keenan, organic snack producer, talks with Matt Reynolds about his brand, Annie's, and the journey to achieve sustainable cereal bag liner using post-consumer recycled content.
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Loop Reusable/Returnable Packaging Platform Launches in Canada with Retail Partner Loblaw
Loop’s global expansion continues, bringing waste-free shopping for a range of food and household products, including Loblaw own-brand items, in reusable packaging to Canada
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Dove’s Sleek New Refillable Deodorant Pack
The global health and beauty brand launches new deodorant packaging that is circular by design, with a reusable stainless-steel case that can be refilled with deodorant sticks.
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Plasma Gasification Promises Holistic Solution to Waste Management Circular Economy in Seven-Minute Video Report
The U.S. recycling infrastructure is failing, and public participation is ebbing. University of Florida is developing a litter and waste management solution to transform recycled trash into syngas.
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Import Tariffs Apply to One Thing or Another
Questions recently arose about whether a specific shape of pasta was actually a drinking straw.
